As a dry eye suffer I am now worried about my son!

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As a long time dry eye suffer one of my worst fears was thinking my children could get it. I'm not sure why I ever thought this as why would anyone have any reason to think a 10 month old or a 4 year old could get it (the ages of my 2 children). However recently I noticed my son's eyes are annoying him in the evening time. He then has a habit of pulling down his bottom eye lids with his hands (likely unclean as he is just 4 years old). I try not to tell him to 'stop that' as I feel that since he is a kid that he will think that it is a game and do it more. So I went with the silent approach and just played an observation game. This has been on going for a good few weeks now. My mind is now racing. He frequently shares the same pillow as me in the morning times for bonus sleeps and my mind is now imagining that he has contracted something from my condition via my pillow. I have blepharitis MGD as of 4 years. Anyway I wanted to share my thoughts with you. Mentally it has been very tough to watch this - as a sufferer I'm sure you can relate to the emotional roller coaster this scenario presents. I've not taken him to any doctor as frankly I see that as a waste of time i.e there is no doctor I've built up any trust with to validate doing this. So I am just observing this. It is worrying.